I grew up in NYC and it truly is a great city (be careful but it’s great.)
Maybe you should try “go fund me” or one of the other websites were people ask for donations.
Make sure if you do that that you share the link with us here.
Good luck, and if he doesn’t get to go now the big apple will be there for him when he can go.
As requested...here is the campaign link given to me at the end of setting up the request
gofundme.com/ff666g
Thank you so much for suggesting this to me.